Robert Lippok
Komponist, Performer, Kurator
Which sound is special for you?
Not a sound, but rather an acoustic situation: the forest.
In my artistic practice, I often deal with thresholds, in-between spaces.
In the forest, sound shatters across an open-closed space. Branches, trunks, and air break each noise into fragments. The forest listens by dispersing – each sound momentary, splintered, suspended between exposure and enclosure.
Does (your) music need a secure or safe space?
My music doesn‚t need a safe space in the conventional sense. It needs a space where uncertainty is possible – where structures can dissolve and reassemble. I‘m drawn to environments that allow friction, vulnerability, even failure. Safety, for me, lies in the freedom to risk something, to unmake form in order to discover it anew.
What instrument has yet to be invented?
An instrument that has yet to be invented is one that plays not just sound, but potential – a system that responds to space, gesture, material tension, and memory in real time. Not a fixed interface, but a fluid, evolving architecture. An instrument that listens as much as it speaks. Perhaps not even an object, but a situation – where composition, environment, and performer blur into one unstable sonic organism. Something between a score, a structure, and a resonance field.
Geboren 1966 in Ost-Berlin. Robert Lippok arbeitet seit Ende der 1980er-Jahre als Musiker, bildender Künstler und Bühnenbildner, realisiert multimediale Installationen, bei denen er verschiedene Medien wie Sound, Film, Fotografie oder Collage miteinander verbindet und oft Bezug auf architektonische und geistige Räume nimmt. Er war Mitglied experimenteller Bandprojekte wie „Ornament & Verbrechen“ (Robert Lippok/Ronald Lippok) und „To Rococo Rot“ (Lippok/Lippok/Stefan Schneider) und ist für Theater- und Opernproduktionen, Ausstellungsprojekte sowie Kollaborationen mit Künstler:innen tätig. 2024 war er mit einer Arbeit bei dem von Çağla Ilk kuratierten Deutschen Pavillon auf der Biennale Venedig vertreten.